Delta Air Lines will add its first nonstop Los Angeles (LAX)-London Heathrow (LHR) service, while Virgin Atlantic will add a new link with Delta’s Atlanta (ATL) home hub, following a swap between the joint venture (JV) partners.
Amerijet International will begin new Boeing 767 cargo service from Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, Ohio and Reno-Tahoe International in Nevada July 7.
Dobrolet will operate a fleet of Next-Generation Boeing 737-800s in a single-class, all-Economy 189-seat arrangement, initially growing to eight aircraft at the end of its first year of service and growing at a rate of eight aircraft per year thereafter to 40 aircraft by 2018.
AirTran Airways, initially formed as ValuJet in 1993, will operate its last scheduled flight on December 28, 2014 with AirTran Flight 001 (marketed as Southwest ‘WN5001’) operating between Atlanta and Tampa Bay that evening, the same flight number and routing of ValuJet's inaugural flight on October 26, 1993.
The European Commission said there is increased consultation and transparency in the setting of airport charges in Europe, but insists more needs to be done to ensure a level playing field across the region.
In response to the European Commission’s (EC) report on the application of the airport charges directive, four European airline associations said they are “deeply disappointed” the EC does not propose enough concrete steps to address the failings identified in the report.
Timisoara-based startup Fly Romania has begun operating domestic and international flights with services from Timisoara to Bucharest (6X-weekly) and Verona (3X-weekly).
Flybe has confirmed it will launch new daily links from Birmingham to Hamburg and Oslo from October 26, 2014 through to March 27, 2015, while its new summer 2014 flights to Bordeaux, Cologne, Florence, Oporto, Reykjavik and Toulouse will be extended through the winter season.
The initial tentative schedule shows the aircraft will operate twice daily on the Toronto - Halifax route from May 23, 2014 through to May 25, 2014 and then on various dates through to the end of June 2014. Alongside this domestic link, Air Canada also plans to use the aircraft on its flights from Toronto to Zurich (from May 25, 2014 to July 14, 2014) and London (from July 2, 2014 to July 13, 2014).
Malaysia Airlines’ short-haul subsidiary Firefly and Garuda Indonesia’s low-cost subsidiary Citilink have signed a cooperation agreement to expand their regional reach through their combined partner networks.
The flight will be operated using a four-class Boeing 777-300ER and will seek to take advantage of the strong business and leisure demand. Located right in the heart of Europe, Zurich is a top banking centre but is also the gateway to the scenic mountains and lakes of Switzerland.
These two new routes adds to the carrier’s existing service to Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, which has been operating since 2006 and further strengthen the airport's long-haul network and Marseille Provence’s position as the French airport with the most long-haul destinations away from Paris.
The UK government-appointed Airports Commission has received detailed proposals relating to the three options short-listed in its December 2013 interim report for a new runway to serve the South East of England.
The airline says the decision to close flights to these two destinations from the end of September 2014 is due to the “sustained weak performance of both routes”.
Ethiopian Airlines has significantly improved its offering to Africa with the arrival of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner on the Addis Ababa service from London Heathrow and the start of daily flights from July 8th (up from six weekly).
Our own analysis of MIDT data shows that last year around two thirds of the passengers flying with the airline from or to Auckland actually ended their journeys at other locations than Guangzhou.
